The Manipulative Effect of Framed Political News
News media’s frame on political issues is more problematic than useful because it manipulates public opinion on important societal issues.
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Ella Fincken
- Mar 6
- 10 min
Poetry and Politics 101: Contemporary Contexts
This article explores the significance of spoken word poetry, through a political lens, as a vehicle of identity and cultural reclamation.
Niccolò Fantin
- Mar 6
- 9 min
The Human Rights System 101: The Role of Media and Civil Society
In the human rights system, civil society and media always represented powerful tools but with the digital revolution their impact increased
Niccolò Fantin
- Feb 19
- 9 min
The Human Rights System 101: Regional integration and global development
The process of regional integration allowed for the emergence of multiple human rights systems, but can they pursue global governance?
Niccolò Fantin
- Feb 12
- 6 min
Public Participation and Environmental Policies: Perspectives for Development
The climate crisis prompted the emergence of methods of participatory democracy, but how effective are they really?
Ella Fincken
- Feb 6
- 8 min
Poetry of the Vietnam War
This article explores the political rhetoric of the Vietnam War, and the ways soldiers sought to reconstitute the reality of the conflict.
Niccolò Fantin
- Feb 6
- 9 min
The Human Rights System 101: The Enforceability of Human Rights
The human rights system has been plagued by its inability to guarantee enforcement but civil society has started to rise up to the challenge
Emily Duchenne
- Feb 5
- 6 min
Youth, Politics, and Agency: How Children are Shaping the World
This article explores how children and youth enact (geo)political agency across the world in contested and complicated ways.
Ella Fincken
- Jan 29
- 10 min
Poetry and Politics 101: Post-First World War Poetry
This article explores the modernist disillusionment with post-war society and the bleak turn of poetry in a war traumatised society.
Kanan Babazade
- Jan 22
- 14 min
Social Protest and Democracy 101: Defining the Idea of Social Protest
This paper aims to thoroughly conceptualize the idea of ‘social protest’ and its core characteristics, including the critical side of it.
Sten de Schrijver
- Jan 15
- 8 min
Genome Editing 101: Politics on Genome Editing
Gene-editing has been the center of heavy debate in the recent past. Interestingly, there are different policies around the world.
Ella Fincken
- Dec 19, 2022
- 9 min
Poetry and Politics 101: Victorian Poetry II - The Male Voice and the Vote
This article explores the Chartist's use of poetry as a political force of propaganda, agitation, and voice.
Nkosana Sithole kaMiya
- Dec 11, 2022
- 8 min
The Paradoxical Nature of Politics, Populism & Representative Democracy: An Ideational Perspective
Populism claiming “the people” is simply conferring greater legitimacy to those who speak on their behalf.
Kanan Babazade
- Dec 11, 2022
- 10 min
Human Rights: Universalism vs Cultural Relativism — A Brief Thought
The article briefly discusses the issues that Universal Declaration of Human Rights is facing in the contemporary world.
Niccolò Fantin
- Dec 11, 2022
- 9 min
The Human Rights System 101: Generations of Rights - The Route to the System
This article explores the generations of rights that have determined interactions with the international system.
Charlie Hartley-O'Dwyer
- Dec 10, 2022
- 8 min
The Body in Coates' Between the World and Me
How does Ta-Nehisi Coates portray the body in his autobiography Between the World and Me?
Alperen Cennetkuşu
- Dec 9, 2022
- 6 min
The Rise of Left-Wing Governments in Latin America: Is There a Second Pink Tide?
The present article analyses the Pink Tide created in the early 2000s.
Rodrigo Bielma Silva
- Dec 6, 2022
- 5 min
Right-wing populism in Sweden: The Sweden Democrats
This article delves into the rise of the Sweden Democrats as a relevant political force in the country and its populist discourse.
Niccolò Fantin
- Dec 4, 2022
- 5 min
The Search for Self-Determination: the Western-Sahara Case
Developing a commonly-shared doctrine on self-determination is still an open question: the Saharawi case highlight these hardships.
Rodrigo Bielma Silva
- Nov 21, 2022
- 4 min
Understanding the term 'crisis' in International Relations
The word 'crisis' is often used in the field of International Relations. Whether the 'crisis' is an economic, political, environmental or...
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